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    <h1 id="ppdmerge-1">ppdmerge(1)</h1>
    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.name">Name</h2>
<p>ppdmerge - merge ppd files (deprecated)
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.synopsis">Synopsis</h2>
<p><strong>ppdmerge</strong>
[
<strong>-o</strong>
<em>output-ppd-file</em>
]
<em>ppd-file</em>
<em>ppd-file</em>
[ ...
<em>ppd-file</em>
]
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.description">Description</h2>
<p><strong>ppdmerge</strong> merges two or more PPD files into a single, multi-language
PPD file.
<strong>This program is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of CUPS.</strong>
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.options">Options</h2>
<p><strong>ppdmerge</strong> supports the following options:
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    <p style="margin-left: 2.5em; text-indent: -2.5em;"><strong>-o </strong><em>output-ppd-file</em><br>
Specifies the PPD file to create.
If not specified, the merged PPD file is written to the standard output.
If the output file already exists, it is silently overwritten.
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.notes">Notes</h2>
<p>PPD files are deprecated and will no longer be supported in a future feature release of CUPS.
Printers that do not support IPP can be supported using applications such as
<strong>ippeveprinter</strong>(1).

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    <p><strong>ppdmerge</strong> does not check whether the merged PPD files are for the same device.
Merging of different device PPDs will yield unpredictable results.
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.see-also">See Also</h2>
<p><strong>ppdc</strong>(1),

<strong>ppdhtml</strong>(1),

<strong>ppdi</strong>(1),

<strong>ppdpo</strong>(1),

<strong>ppdcfile</strong>(5),

CUPS Online Help (<a href="http://localhost:631/help">http://localhost:631/help</a>)
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    <h2 id="ppdmerge-1.copyright">Copyright</h2>
<p>Copyright &copy; 2020-2024 by OpenPrinting.
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